The Thought-reader Of Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDC EFEFCF GHGHIH JKJKCK LMMMNM OMOMPM QMQMRM OSOSMS MMMMSM MMMMSM OTOTUT MVMVMV WMWMXMReported By Truthful James | A |
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We hev tumbled ez dust | B |
Or ez worms of the yearth | C |
Wot we looked for hez bust | B |
We are objects of mirth | C |
They have played us old Pards of the river they hev played us for | D |
all we was worth | C |
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Was it euchre or draw | E |
Cut us off in our bloom | F |
Was it faro whose law | E |
Is uncertain ez doom | F |
Or an innocent Jack pot that opened was to us ez the jaws of the | C |
tomb | F |
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It was nary It kem | G |
With some sharps from the States | H |
Ez folks sez All things kem | G |
To the fellers ez waits | H |
And we'd waited six months for that suthin' had me and Bill Nye in | I |
such straits | H |
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And it kem It was small | J |
It was dream like and weak | K |
It wore store clothes that's all | J |
That we knew so to speak | K |
But it called itself Billson Thought Reader which ain't half a | C |
name for its cheek | K |
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He could read wot you thought | L |
And he knew wot you did | M |
He could find things untaught | M |
No matter whar hid | M |
And he went to it blindfold and smiling being led by the hand like | N |
a kid | M |
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Then I glanced at Bill Nye | O |
And I sez without pride | M |
You'll excuse US We've nigh | O |
On to nothin' to hide | M |
But if some gent will lend us a twenty we'll hide it whar folks | P |
shall decide | M |
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It was Billson's own self | Q |
Who forked over the gold | M |
With a smile Thar's the pelf | Q |
He remarked I make bold | M |
To advance it and go twenty better that I'll find it without being | R |
told | M |
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Then I passed it to Nye | O |
Who repassed it to me | S |
And we bandaged each eye | O |
Of that Billson ez we | S |
Softly dropped that coin in his coat pocket ez the hull crowd | M |
around us could see | S |
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That was all He'd one hand | M |
Locked in mine Then he groped | M |
We could not understand | M |
Why that minit Nye sloped | M |
For we knew we'd the dead thing on Billson even more than we | S |
dreamed of or hoped | M |
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For he stood thar in doubt | M |
With his hand to his head | M |
Then he turned and lit out | M |
Through the door where Nye fled | M |
Draggin' me and the rest of us arter while we larfed till we | S |
thought we was dead | M |
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Till he overtook Nye | O |
And went through him Words fail | T |
For what follers Kin I | O |
Paint our agonized wail | T |
Ez he drew from Nye's pocket that twenty wot we sworn was in his own | U |
coat tail | T |
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And it WAS But when found | M |
It proved bogus and brass | V |
And the question goes round | M |
How the thing kem to pass | V |
Or if PASSED woz it passed thar by William and I listens and | M |
echoes Alas | V |
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For the days when the skill | W |
Of the keerds was no blind | M |
When no effort of will | W |
Could beat four of a kind | M |
When the thing wot you held in your hand Pard was worth more than | X |
the thing in your mind | M |
Bret Harte
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